Opus 5 max thinking reportedly underperforms xhigh on 20–30% of benchmarks
keunwoochoi · x · 2026-07-25
A reply to a discussion of Opus 5 notes that Opus 4.8 does not show the same issue and suggests the behavior may indicate a rushed release.
The quoted observation underneath says that in roughly 20–30% of reported benchmarks, Opus 5 max thinking performs worse than xhigh. The surprising part is that more thinking and more test-time compute would normally be expected to improve results, so the benchmark drops may point to either an emergent issue in smaller models or a post-training problem.
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